mesamune@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoMicrosoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine teamwww.gamingonlinux.comexternal-linkmessage-square202fedilinkarrow-up1738arrow-down116cross-posted to: linux@programming.devlinux@lemmy.mlgames@sh.itjust.works
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minus-squareMihies@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 months agoHm, WinForms and WPF with Wine you mean? Otherwise makes not much sense. Was WPF ever run in this combination!
minus-squarechaospatterns@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 months agoAh yeah. Mono didn’t support WPF, but Mono did support running WinForms apps natively on Linux without using Wine.
minus-squareMihies@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months agoThe problem with WinForms is that at least serious 3rd party libraries do a lot of direct API calls I guess, hence Wine.
Hm, WinForms and WPF with Wine you mean? Otherwise makes not much sense. Was WPF ever run in this combination!
Ah yeah. Mono didn’t support WPF, but Mono did support running WinForms apps natively on Linux without using Wine.
The problem with WinForms is that at least serious 3rd party libraries do a lot of direct API calls I guess, hence Wine.